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SUNDAY, JANUARY .21, 1923
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And even more discouraging is the
A .Lt tlfutility of the various efforts. Every
e T heatreH ere I organization seems to be going its
BLUE DEVILS complacent, separate way. Such a
ROBERT BATRONthing as co-operation. is unthinkable.
ROBERTBARTRO Mr. Shuter quite naturally laughs at
the "highbrow drama" being attempted
omwn were not garulousB ut they Did you read the criticism of the at Michigan resolves itself at best in- here, while the blood of every faculty
passed way ng g ith my wey Opera in the recent Alumnus? Well, to a more or less crude imitation of member runs cold at the thought of
esteemed grandfather and since that probably not; no student ever reads certain of the good and many, of he the official recognition of the Mimes
esteme grndfthe an sice hatproabl no; n stden evr radsbad -fuatures of Broadway comnmer- as a 'campus dramatic society. ° The
-time people have become talkative- the Alumnus. The point is that it wasdci as.re is all very discouraging. as' cmus sticlsoi The
extrem~ely so. Opinion, interpretationI the only campus article on "In and cialism. It i l eydsorgn.Paes lbsrglsaog na
extrnzey s. Oinin, ntepreatin th ony cmpu aricl on"Inand Even for those who really. desire se-; eerie, rattling barn.'. Professor Nel-
and criticism are cast about with an Out" that even hinted that the show i E r t ra lly desie Ue- sre rattin an Pressor Ne-
insane disregard for the wasted por- might have had some faults. The rious dramatic training at the Uni- son works months and presents one
tion which falls upon sterile ground. general tone of the reviews of the rsity there is little opportunity: performanc s of a play y centuriesnold.
Somewhere in this chaos are seeds play was perfectly appalling.. One Sixty five people tried out for mew- Professor Hollister is calmlycontend-
of genius. If we permit ourselves to would think the Union officials them-u bership in Comedy Club, of which ed with his small audience and the
number only ten wee received. It i~s inevitable 'green curtain. And the
grope about, an occasional brier point selves were the authors. A certain not possible that all of the unfortunate Union Opera: in heaven's name, what
scratches our sense of delicacy, and student even had the rural enthusiasm fifty-five were excluded because Of does it all amount to after all from
we flee to revised editions of the to claim that it made Zeigfeld, Gest' lack of room. The same is true of an artistic standpoint?
classics and bury our heads. and the rest look to their laurels. Masques. One hundred and fifty girls T
Perhaps the crass, which caused our The Players club,-Masques, Comedy have applied for membership in this to th e theory, if te American drama
mental anguish, was only the outer club, and the other dramatic organi- organization, although it has been is to be ".saved". It will be by the
hide of something good. Had it been zations may seriously try to put on frankly announced that only twelve product of the American universities.
presented in another color we would programs of true literary merit only will be accepted. The Players' Club A college course they say, is the ideal
have pronounced it acceptable. The to be met with the most cynical, has about three times as many people time for the prospective dramatist to
manner of presentation doe3 influence scathing criticism by the village pa- on its various committees as it has in experiment and -to develop his powers.
the ultimate verdict. Our popular per the next morning. There is noth- the acts themselves. Something is But Michigan men interested in this
literary dishes are not really bad, but ing particularly wrong with this; per- all wrong. If, for example, there were field have had to go to Mr. Quirk of
the platter is cracked, the linen is haps they deserve it. But what I do several hundred students here who the Ypsilanti Players to get their
soiled and the new cook has not yet object to is the foolish, sickening wanted training in business adminis-{ works produced. I refer particularly
discovered our positive tastes. praise given every year's Opera, evi- tration and it was denied them, the to Carl Guske, whose "Fata Deorum"
* * * dently merely because it is sponsored various members of the faculty would was published by Frank Shay of New
If freshn-en are to be educated to by the Union.. immediately raise a vigorous protest, York in an anthology that contained
Univeisity life a better instrument of Personally, "In and Out" seemed and, needless to say, the authorities such names as O'Neill, Glaspell, and
training would be hard to discover, impossibly slow and dull to me. It would remedy the lack. But drama- Millay. Leon Cunningham, also a
other than "Old Man Dare's" Talks probably would have been much bet- tics is an art . . . . "It is unneces- Michigan name, whose play, "Hos-
to College Men, by Howard Bement. ter if nine-tenths of the encores had sary." (Continued on Page Three)
Mr. Bement knows how to talk been cut out, and the production trim-
familiarly to college men better than med down from a three to a two-hour ;
any author who has attempted a book play. Mr. Shuter, for all his good'
of this sort, because he has written points, has not yet learned Mr. Zeig-
truth and common sense in a .style feld's trick of never giving the public
which will neither bore nor become quite all it wants. Another bad fea- YOU MEET -
preachy. ture-and. this is the point the alum-
If freshmen were presented 'with a nus article stresses-is the ,shameless A hurried word of introduction - a single glance - and
copy of "OJd Man Dare" instead of a plagiarism from certain professional some new acquaintance has formed an opinion of you.
set of moth pitted bogey man "tradi- revues. "The. March of the Tin Sol- The impression e carries away, born of an instant's in-
tions", their acclimation to Univer- diers" is of course, tranfferred bodily
sity life might be accomplished with- from a .similar number in th'e Chauve spection, may be the foundation of success or the cause
out the application of personal viol- Souris, with the French doll introduc- of failure. In many cases clothes make or mar your per-
ence. ed to partially disguise the fact. An- sonality. See to it that you are always in the best of
President Marion L. Burton wrote asphasia bears a surprising resem- I condition.
the introduction to this little book, blance to the low comedian in "Sally,"
which, should be sufficient reconi;end- or perhap:s even closer to the famous.
ation for a book touching upon the gawky maid of "The Bat." Even Kate,
fundamentals phases of college life. as excellent as Dresbach makes the;DETTLING - TAILOR
character, is an absolute copy of the 1121 S. University Ave
female impersonators that have made
Quantities of printed froth appeared "Hitchy-Koo" and "The Greenwich Vil-
during the past year urging the cam- lage Follies" famous. In short the
pus powers to allow men to become most expensive dramatic undertaking
aart of the audience at the Junior
minite queer figure, renotely suggest-
ing and old man. The chief charac-
teristic of the aparitien was a cer'tafn
disareeable ' nudity which resulted
from its complete lack of all the ac-:
cepted appurtenances and- preroga-
tives of old age. Its little ,stooping!
body, helpless and brittle, bore with
extraordinary difficulty a head of
absurd -largeness, yet which- moved onI
the fleshless neck -wih ahorrible :agili-
ty. Dull eyes sat in the clean-shaven,
wrinkles neatly hopeless. At- thel
knees a pair of hands hung, infantile
in their smallness. In the loose
mouth a tiny cigarette- had perched
and was solemnly smoking itself.
"Suddenly the figure darted at me
with a spiderlike entirety.
"I felt myself lost."
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"The planton who .suffered all these
indignities was a solemn youth with
wise eyes situated very far apart in
a mealy expressionless ellipse of face,
to the lower end of which clung a'
piece of down, exactly like a feather
sticking to an egg.- The rest of him
wt,- fairly normal with the exception
of his hands, which were not mates;
the left being considerable larger, and
made of wood."
boy-or perhaps. it i.s with th'e mag i-. that Claude marries. All the magic ty and has incident
ficent appreciation of true sophistica- of Miss Cather's refined and sympathe- it shows that a wo
tioi .'The stylehe- employs is'iiten= tic 'style in .lavrshed upon the stoy ot -way -to fame. and t]
sely journalistic and he.writes with a Cladde's struggle with life and fate. a book that will
k flagrent disregard for ruls of sen- Had she not tried to transplTant her--
tence structure. The resultant chop- rustic hero, the tory mght have been x.M
py sentences and detached phrases are. as great a success as her other novels. !aveft
peculiarly adapted to his material. It In - the second half of the book,
becomes the written Journal of his jlaude goes to war to escape .some- (Continued f
mnd - thought .-fragments crowding thing which haunted his life.- Here
each on the other, impressions suc-! Miss Cather fails utterly to picture that some day she V
ceeding those, fleeting memories, re- scenes to big for a- woman's under- known, never-to-t
fiections, all struggling for place. standing. Her knowledge of "la where she could da
Indeed, so strong is' this illusion guerre" is second-hand and unrealis- dance the slave g
in "Fog Patteris", "Night Diary", tic. Young Wheeler meets many new leased, released b
"Grass Figures", that it is all but is kinds of people, among them the lov- Prosence. Never w
a violation of privacy to read. - able sergeant Hicks, an excellent portray this before
I have said that Mr. Hecht offers no character. He too is disappointed and the solitude of her
interpretation of the pictures he un- like many other realists is dealt an very soul be revea
folds before us. True, but I am not so unkindly blow by fate. The tragedy She put on the p
sure whether or no there is any me 3- remained, that one so fine and emulous hat. "Good-night,
sage hidden in them. I turn to the -could meet no other end than death, a blowy night. Tc
last lines of the last story in the book, with the truth of life engulfed in the Friday, fish again.
and read them again: "That's the se- C oud of innocence to the end. hair-nets in the mor
cret. Life is a few years of suspended The story is told with epic simplici- ing, too.
animation. But there is no story in
that. Better forget it."
MILLIONS. by Ernest Poole, The Mac.
iillan Company.
Reviewed by Ronway T. Halgrit.
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Girls play. The problem was voted
upon, deliberated upon, and sat upon
but it persisted and won.
It ways one of the obviously unrea-
sonable regulations programmed on
the University's generous.list. It has
passed, and it is strange that so much
should have been written and so much
subscribed to a resolution to clean the
mud from the wheel.
Puer S nbit
Caroline Matilde, Queen of Denmark,
once scratched these words with a
diamond on w window of the castle of
Fredierickborg: "0 God, keep me in-
nocent; give fig'eatness to others."
This brief prayer contains much that
is significant. First, it presupposes
that innocence and greatness are anti-
thetical,-a presupposition that may
well be scanned by present-day aspir-
antis to power, and especially by col-
lege students. Notice that it does not
imply however, that contamination is
synonymous with greatness. If this
were so we would all be Napo eons.
N. B.
Kipling Bids for Own Manuseript
The highest bidder for an unpub-
lished manuscript of Rudyard Kipling,
which has recently been offered for
sale, is the famous author himself. Mr
Kipling had forgotten the existence of
such a manuscript and it was only af-
ter examining the work that he pro-
nounced it genuine, although he only
faintly remembered incidents connect-
ed with it.
The story is a satire on Anglo-Indian
society called "At the Pit's Mouth;
Personal recollections of Duncan Par-
reness-translated from the diary by
R. K." and was written in 1884 when
Kipling was a young journalist in In-
dia. Efforts have ben made to publish
the manuscript, which is still protect-
ed by the original copyright, but the
author has refused to give his sanc-
tion-.
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These, as I feare:, Wvi7 give a "Millions" cannot be compared with-
somewhat blased impression of the Ernest Poole's big novel "The Har-
book. They show none of the romance 'hor" but it is nevertheless an excep-
that Cummings has ,succeeded i cull- tionally well written story. His char-
ing from his frightful experiences. r s rm
acters arc, as natural as the members,
The acquaintances that lie made here of one's own family. The big thing
are almost all somewhat tinged with that Mr. Pole has accomplished is to
romance, of the highest sort. b show the effect of to-day's material-
He has rounded out his narrative ism upon the prolituriat, the influence
in a 1ost remarkable way. Fille of gold upon those who do not possess
with material which deservets much at- it, and how truly greedy a group of ,
tention, embellished with humor and tov'." people may turn out to
romance and done in an effective style; be. The story is placed in New York,
it is a real literary achievement for for where else in our lnd are the
our younger American writers. streets paved with proverbial gold and
nurses lined with "Millions"? Gordon
1001 AFTERNOONS IN CHICAGO, by Gable is hurt in an automobile acci-
Ben Heclit. Covici-McGee. dent and not expected to live. In a
small town, up-state, Madge, Gordon's
Reviewed by Dorothy Sanders sister is notified of the accident and
Ben Hecht's latest book, "1001 Aft- she hurries to her unconscious broth-
ernoons in Chicago", while scarcely a er's bedside. With her come her re- '
literary achievement, is fascinating. latives, to see that Madge gets her
Mr; Hecht in the unmistabable lan- "Millions" and their motives cannot
guage of sincere enthusiasm paints truly be called althruistic. The char-
from multitudinous angleshe spirit acters of these "respectable citizens"
of the city streets. He shows it to us is bared by the shining light of the
with an understanding -born of symn- gold and they all can be seen to gloat
pathy. Here is none of your surgical over the possibility of unearned riches.
detachment, your impersonal analysis Incidentally they only cause Madge
'which ha-s become so offensive in the much trouble and help to make things
young moderns. On the other hand. harder for her in an already trying
though every word he utters is color- position. Just to complicate matters
ed by his personality, Mr. Hecht offers enter Miss O'Brien, the self-styled
absolutely nothing by way of inter- sweetheart of the unconscious young
pretation. It is almost as if this man, but unqueftionably a. "gold-dig-
businelss of -life were too tremendous ger". 'Other members of the bed-side
for that. . scene are Joe, the "big-hearted part-
In the great heterogeneous mob, the ner" of Gordon, and the surgeon and
million faces passing and repassing nurses who care for him. Young
each other, Mr. Hecht, glimpses some- 'Cable lives long enough for Poole to
thing beyond their furrows and the weave a story about his bed-side-
frowns and the smiles. He sees the which is filled with tense drama, bits
little souls terribly in earnest behind a° humor, and great amounts of
their masks, and he pauses to ask human interest. The death scene is
why. The sketches and short stories dragged out through a pitiful number
in "1001 Afternoons" are infinitely va- of pages, but it is justified as a me-
ried in subject, tone and mood, they 'dium for excellent characterization.
run the whole gamut from brushed off The story rings true and will hold
tears to hearty laughter, and yet, upon interest for the reader who likes good
reflection they leave a unified impres- character pictures. j
sion on the mind of the reader. Those'
legions whose weary feet stand end- ONE OF OURS. by Willa Cather. Alf.
lessly in street car isles, those thou- red A. Knopf, $2.r0.
sands whose rough 'red hands make Reviewed by Ronald Halgrim
life clean and comfo-table for us, are
living out their days in a bewilder of -Women see the- grim wored of reali-
waiting. Waiting-for what they do ty thro rose tinted glasses and this
not question, can not que-stion for the trait is easily detected when they at-
most part. There is a dumb, word- tempt to write a novel dealing with
less, acceptance of the perplexities big things. After reading Willa Oath-
which they can not solve, the confu. er's two novels "My Antonia" and "0O
sions which crush them. -Yet. Mr. ; Pioneers!" I had been waiting with
Hecht finds them asking no odds, in- great expectancy for her next story
exprssibly tired but unemrbittered. f to be published. Eagerly I bought a
That is their glory and the strength copy of "One of Ours" and was.
of his compositions. We see a stoical promptly disappointed. Women should
Fanny before the Judge,--"Fanny has stick to the things they can write best
no words. Something heavy in her if they are to gain a reputation, and
heart. something vague and. heavy in keep it, as novelists. The fact that
her fhought-these are all that Fanny Miss Cather took three years to write
has." We have Jan "still tearing up "One of Ours" does not redeem it.
the letter, his thick fin-~ers tryinw' The first half of the book dealing
vainly to divide it into obits", and-the' with plain country life of our great
Mother "holding the year old child to farming Western states 'resents a I
her, walked toward the elevator. pleasing picture. Claude Wheeler, a
There was nothing to see in her young man out of place in his sur-
eyes." rounding is described with a sym-;
"1001 Afternoons in Chicago" is rich -pathic understanding which shows
in fanciful images, "gold and' ruby that Miss Cather can write. At heart
reflections of the bridge lizhts-hanl this boy is a radical,b ut likeable phil-
like carnival ribbon, in the water", osopher who is confused by the bustle
"the busy part of the city is like the of modern life and can not see the
exposed mechanism of some monstrous value of the modern materialistic
clock." Hecht sees everything with aims. His mother has a certain fine-
the imaginative eyes of anr unspoiled ness that is absent in the crass person
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